Stef is the Special Collections and Archives Manager at Bishopsgate Institute and has been responsible for the development of the Institute’s collections on the history of London, protest and activism, and LGBTQ+ Britain. He qualified as an archivist in 2001 and started at Bishopsgate in 2005.

Previous to this, Stef worked in the archives of the London School of Economics and Senate House Library. He will talk at extraordinary length about the collections whenever asked and regularly entertains groups of students, groups and family/local history societies on the wonders they can find in the Special Collections and Archives at the Institute.

Dr Verusca Calabria is an oral historian and a trustee of the Oral History Society, a national organisation that promotes best practises in the collection and preservation of ordinary people’s oral histories.

Dr. Calabria is an Associate Professor of Mental Health Histories at the School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University.’

Her PhD research combined participatory action research with oral history to explore the transition from institutional to community care practices. Her research interests include the history of mental health care in the UK, personal and public involvement in health and social care.

www.mentalhealthcarememories.co.uk

Founder Social Broadcasts

As a sound artist, radio producer, community facilitator and educator, Lucia Scazzocchio has been nurturing and curating hyper-local contexts, distilling diverse and disparate stories and conversations that weave individual personal stories to illustrate and explore wider social narratives.

She calls this ‘Social Broadcasting’. Driven by creating engaging participatory radio and audio experiences that she ‘audioscapes’ into imaginative on and off-line broadcast initiatives and formats, Social Broadcasting represents the versatility of audio as an evolving social and artistic medium.

www.socialbroadcasts.co.uk